From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 02:19:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA28423 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:19:37 -0700 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA28409 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:19:18 -0700 Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (sys@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.18.7]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA11327; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 11:18:57 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.9) id LAA09543; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 11:18:55 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 11:18:55 +0200 Message-Id: <199504240918.LAA09543@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Paul Richards Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers mailing list) Subject: Gating hackers into the newsgroups In-Reply-To: <199504211910.UAA11985@isl.cf.ac.uk> References: <199504211910.UAA11985@isl.cf.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Richards writes: >I was just wondering, what do people think about gating hackers mail >into the newsgroups. Hackers is a fairly open forum anyway and the >new newsgroups are actually pretty good technically so it would >boost our presence if we got more traffic going through it. > >Note, I'm only talking about hackers and I'm only talking about hackers >mail going to the newsgroup and not the other way around, we don't want >all those Linux flames coming onto the mailing list. $ egrep '^muc\..*freebsd' ~/.newsrc muc.lists.freebsd.announce: muc.lists.freebsd.bugs:1-115 muc.lists.freebsd.current!1-74 muc.lists.freebsd.hackers:1-17,19-155 muc.lists.freebsd.questions:1-181 $ egrep '^muc\..*freebsd' /usr/news/lib/active muc.lists.freebsd.hackers 0000000329 0000000001 m muc.lists.freebsd.current 0000000218 0000000001 m muc.lists.freebsd.questions 0000000181 0000000001 m muc.lists.freebsd.bugs 0000000115 0000000001 m muc.lists.freebsd.announce 0000000000 0000000001 m muc.* are local newsgroups for München/Bayern (Munich/Mnichov) Gruß Wolfram -- http://hyperg.cs.tu-berlin.de/C~wosch